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Matrix the protocol seems fine, but client software seems to be all web views or (weirdly) imitating the look of web views.
by ahartmetz 1y ago
Matrix the protocol seems fine, but client software seems to be all web views or (weirdly) imitating the look of web views.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoFractal for GNOME is neither, and it’s decent.
- rwmj 1y agoI want a text only client, running in a terminal. I don't care that I won't be able to see the pictures & animations - in fact that's an advantage.
- skydhash 1y agoThe emacs client is nice, ement.el, is nice. And there's probably a weechat plugin somewhere.
- jasonjayr 1y agohttps://weechat.org/ https://weechat.org/ -- supports matrix (as well as IRC).
- rwmj 1y agoYes this is fair. I'm even using Weechat for IRC & Slack, so I just need to get around to setting it up.
- ahartmetz 1y agoIt does look and work very much like a web view. I just tried it.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoUh, how?.. It’s a conversation window with a contact list to the left, with GNOME-standard (libadwaita) look and feel. If you want separate conversation windows (like ICQ or Pidgin), then I understand the desire, but it’s pretty much orthogonal to web-view-ness (also very rare these days regardless of protocol).
- ahartmetz 1y agoMaybe Adwaita looks like that, I don't know. But there is a ton of whitespace, lots of clickable UI elements that look just like regular text, that kind of thing.